{"product_id":"the-life-and-letters-of-leslie-stephen-paperback-9781108048170","title":"The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108048170","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe biography, published in 1906, of the leading Victorian literary figure and founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrederic William Maitland (Author), Leslie Stephen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108048170, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 April 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e534 pages, 5 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.67 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLeslie Stephen (1832–1904), the founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, was one of the leading literary figures of the nineteenth century. Stephen, the father of artist Vanessa Bell and writer Virginia Woolf, began his career writing for London publications before being appointed Editor of The Cornhill Magazine in 1881. The magazine's proprietor approached him with the idea for the Dictionary, and the first volume appeared in 1885 to much acclaim - but by 1889 Stephen had collapsed from overwork and finally stepped down from his editorial role in 1891. However, he continued to write extensively not least, publishing the three-volume The English Utilitarians (also reissued in this series) in 1900. This biography, published in 1906, was written by family friend and legal historian Frederic Maitland (1850–1906), who drew extensively from Stephen's letters to give a detailed account of the life of a most influential Victorian.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Parentage\u003cbr\u003e 3. Boyhood (1832–50)\u003cbr\u003e 4. The undergraduate (1850–4)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sketches of a don at Cambridge (1854–64)\u003cbr\u003e 6. The playground of Europe (1855–94)\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Times and the war (1863–5)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Free-thinking and plain-speaking (1862–5)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Journalism (1865–71)\u003cbr\u003e 10. The first marriage (1865–71)\u003cbr\u003e 11. Hours in a library (1867–73)\u003cbr\u003e 12. More hours in a library (1873–5)\u003cbr\u003e 13. Cornhill and Schreckhorn (1871–5)\u003cbr\u003e 14. Wordsworth's ethics (1875–8)\u003cbr\u003e 15. The second marriage (1878)\u003cbr\u003e 16. An ethical treatise (1878–82)\u003cbr\u003e 17. Tramps and contributors (1879–91)\u003cbr\u003e 18. The struggle with the Dictionary (1882–91)\u003cbr\u003e 19. An agnostics apology (1891–5)\u003cbr\u003e 20. Studies of a biographer (1895–1902)\u003cbr\u003e 21. The sunset (1902–4)\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I. Leslie Stephen's works\u003cbr\u003e II. List of the Sunday Tramps\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266087112984,"sku":"9781108048170","price":42.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108048170i.jpg?v=1696746749","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-life-and-letters-of-leslie-stephen-paperback-9781108048170","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}